Featured Travel Blogger: La Carmina

Up next in my Featured Travel Blogger series is La Carmina, a 20-something female travel TV host, blogger and author, originally from Canada but who now travels all over the world for her own travel series.

7. Tell us a bit about where you are at the moment and what you’re doing there:

I’m currently in Toronto for some TV business meetings, and to do travel reports about the city’s alternative culture – including the vintage shopping scene, Goth Industrial EBM clubs, underground bands and artists. I also modeled Gothic Lolita and Victorian fashion by local designer Gloomth, in a historic downtown hotel.

Image courtesy of La Carmina

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8. First ever travel experience:

Flying at the age of one, to Hong Kong. I have relatives there, and have travelled to HK over two dozen times since.

9. Where’s next in your travel plans?:

I will be announcing my next destinations for May and June very soon – please keep your eyes peeled on my site to find out where I’m going!

10. Give me the top 3 places you’ve visited and why:

It’s difficult to name a top 3, but some of the most magnificent places I’ve visited are the Maldives (untouched beaches, Treasure Island paradise), Tokyo (for the mind-bending pop culture and street style) and Budapest (hip music festivals and nightlife).

11. What 5 countries do you want to visit that you haven’t yet been to?:

25. Thanks for taking the time to answer all these questions. Now please take a few lines to tell everyone about your website…

I started my La Carmina blog on a whim, to express my love for alternative culture and fashion worldwide. Today, it’s become my career – I travel at least once a month to global destinations, usually with my professional travel film crew. Instead of the usual landmarks and museums, we capture first-hand visuals and stories about Day of the Dead in Mexico, drag queens in the Middle East, cyberpunks in Prague, and more. I also appear regularly on travel TV shows as a host and production arranger (perhaps you’ve seen me on Today Show, Oddities, The Doctors, Andrew Zimmern’s Bizarre Foods) and work as a travel journalist for publications like Sunday Times UK. I hope you enjoy my travel videos and adventures – please keep in touch, you can always find me by googling “La Carmina”!

Image courtesy of La Carmina

Thanks so much La Carmina…some fantastic answers! Happy travels!

If you’re a travel blogger and would like to be featured next in this travel blogger interview series, please get in touch!